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On high school and college campuses and in certain political and social media circles,self-identify as "genderqueer" -- neither male nor female but an androgynous hybrid or rejection of both -- is challenging anew the limits of Western comprehension.

The tiny Himalayan nation of Nepal plans to launch its own ’gay Olympics’ in the fall. Planners hope visitors will join local competitors in several events that will help further an already rapidly evolving acceptance of gay, lesbian & trans Nepalese.

Pakistanis who fail to pay up on tax day might find a posse of transgender tax collectors at their door--a form of "enforcement" that relies less on muscle than on local attitudes regarding sexual minorities, attitudes that spell humiliation for scofflaws whom the trans tax collectors target.

Leave it to a six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald to add some major theatrics to the scene playing out over social media in response to Republican Indiana Gov. Mike Pence's signing of a "license to discriminate" bill Thursday.